WelCom March 2022 We BelieveIn the Dance of Life In Eternal welcomeBeyond Gender, Beyond SelfThree and OneFor us and For us and For usWith us and Calling usTo be who really we are Our God who is LoveRevealed as Love among usCalling us to Love, to Give, to YieldBlessed are, Blessed are, Blessed are…….Beyond our Selfs, […]
WelCom March 2022 Elizabeth Julian rsm March 25, the feast of the Annunciation, the feast of Mary’s saying ‘yes’ to God requires a response from us. Like Mary we are called to bring Christ to birth wherever we are. Really? Yes, really. So keep your eyes and ears out for an angel to tell you […]
WelCom February 2022 During late 1918 the worldwide ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic swept across New Zealand. World War One cost 18,000 New Zealand soldiers’ lives over four years. The Spanish flu pandemic took about 9000 lives across the country. Of these the calculation is that about 2500 were Māori, a number highly disproportionate to their percentage […]
WelCom February 2022 Josephine Bakhita, born in Darfur region of the Sudan around 1869, was kidnapped as a young child and sold into slavery. She was sold on many times, suffering severe physical abuse for about 12 years. She was finally freed by an Italian court order when she was about 20 years old. She […]
WelCom February 2022 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Gospel Luke 5:1-11 1 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. 2 He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. 3 […]
WelCom December 2021 Hinge Points of Spiritual Living By this letter, I am saying to fellow travellers:know the journey you are on,be nurtured by it,and ready to share it. Peter Cullinane 2021 (Bishop Emeritus of Palmerston North) Commemorating – with gratitude and joy – 60 years ordained Waking up to what is real We are […]
WelCom December 2021 Martin de Jong, Caritas Advocacy Advisor United Nations climate talks (COP26) held in Glasgow, UK in November were described by many civil society organisations as the least participatory to date, as Covid restrictions and other measures limited the representation of many Pacific Island nations and monitoring of the negotiations by civil society. […]
WelCom December 2021 It’s time to take the Pope Francis-approach to climate change Griffin Thompson The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was a tale of two cities: one afloat on bold pledges and new promises, the other sinking under the weight of ‘Greta Mania’ and the chants of ‘blah, blah, blah’ from the followers of […]
WelCom December 2021 WelCom has been profiling the New Zealand Catholic Bishop’s Conference’s various agencies throughout 2021. This month, we feature the Catholic Enquiry Centre, which marks 60 years of mission in Aotearoa New Zealand. Director Fr Neil Vaney sm describes CEC’s journey. Origins and aims When the Catholic Missionary Society set out in the […]
WelCom December 2021 The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December, is the patronal feast of the Archdiocese of Wellington. This article is an abridged version of a presentation about Mary Dr Elizabeth Julian rsm gave this year after Choral Evenson in St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Wellington,on the feast of the Annunciation, 25 March. Why […]